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Knife Repair, Modification, Restoration & Improvement
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KnifeMaker1972 Case repair
This piece belonged to a friends Grandpa. The main back spring was completely rounded off and there was no action left to it. Both blades had been loved on quite a bit.I had the main blade tang tig welded and reshaped, lightly cleaned both blades up and returned to 1 happy grandson. Heres a…
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The first of the ulu refurbishes
I recently was able acquire a small lot of ulu knives that all needed to be cleaned, restored, or refurbished.Here is a before photo of one that was missing a handle.I spent…
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USN MK2
Good Evening!I just acquired a USN MK2 knife a couple of days ago. The grip's leather discs were horribly dehydrated, and the guard was a bit bent; but for the most part, it was in pretty good shape. It really needed some cleaning and just a touch of tweaking to get it back into good shape.Here…
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Another ulu - cleaning/restoration
Another ulu from the small lot of them I was able to purchase recently.This one only needed a thorough cleaning and some careful restoration.Before pics:…
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KnifeMakerCase Three Blade Trapper Modification
This Case trapper started out as a 2 bladed purple barnboard jigged bone knife. Had a fella aske me to make it a 3 blade and add some filework to it. I used a spey blade from a donor trapper and modified it into a wharncliffe blade for the 3rd one. Filework was added and while putting it back…
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An old Rapala (Marttiini) fillet knife
I found this old fillet knife literally in pieces.The blade was bent. The tang was warped. The handle was too small (in my opinion). And the mechanical connection of the tang behind the handle was destroyed. The edge being useless was an obvious condition based on the state of all of the…
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KnifeMakerCase Vault Release Razor rehandled in Mammoth Ivory
Had to try one out, so I sacrificed a jigged black synthetic handled razor and added some mammoth bark ivory that had some great character. First razor I've ever done, very easy pattern to work with.…
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KnifeMakerSchrade 194OT Rehandle
Had a customer reach out wanting me to barehead and add stag to this great Old Timer. Original handles and box can be seen in the pictures.…
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KnifeMaker1972 Case Sodbuster Rehandle
Recently removed the original black covers and replaced them with European red stag on this 1972 Case Sodbuster. Original covers can be seen lying to the left of the knife.…
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KnifeMakerBuck 547 Skinner: Rehandle Project
I recently completed this rehandle project for a client. A Buck 547 skinner, the client is a huge fan of sambar stag, but it is getting hard to find stag the size of which we needed for this project. I should also add that he likes for his knives to be stag from end to end...so I had to hide all…
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